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Govind Rao

Federal Election 2015- Vote Health Care! - Ontario Health Coalition - 0 views

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  • Posted: September 14, 2015
  • Canadians share a deeply held belief that access to health care should not be based on how rich we are, but on our medical need. Most of us believe that our government will not purposely destroy public health care. But privatization is a serious threat and it would dismantle health care for all if we don’t stop it. The 2015 Federal Election is fast approaching but the Ontario Health Coalition can help you vote for public health care! Currently, there are 4 key issues with Canada’s health care system. When we vote this year, we must ask our candidates to make 4 commitments to improve health care. The federal government of Canada must:
  • 1. Renew the Canada Health Accord Commit to improving the federal governments share of health funding, and don’t download it onto the province. 2. Stop privatization and 2-tier charges for patients Stop private clinics that undermine single-tier health care. Our money is better spent on care not profiteering. 3. Create a public drug program A public drug program would better control too-high drug prices and put money towards safer, needed medications. 4. Improve seniors’ care
Doug Allan

More doctors, higher spending: Data sheds light on trends in the physician workforce | ... - 0 views

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shared by Doug Allan on 29 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Total payments to physicians jumped almost 6% in 2014, to a total of $24.1 billion, according to new numbers released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI). The increase comes just 1 year after the lowest annual increase in almost 15 years.
  • Numbers published today in CIHI’s report Physicians in Canada, 2014 show that the number of doctors has been steadily increasing over the last decade, reaching almost 80,000 in 2014. In addition, gross payments to physicians continued to rise, with physicians earning an average of $336,000 in 2013–2014, an increase of 2.4% from the previous year.
  • The annual average payment per physician ranged from $263,000 in Nova Scotia to $368,000 in Ontario.
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  • The national trend masks some regional differences. For example, the number of doctors in Alberta and Saskatchewan has increased by 20% in the last 5 years, the highest among the provinces. During the same period, British Columbia, Quebec and Prince Edward Island had the lowest increases of between 10% and 11%.
  • More doctors are graduating in Canada than ever before.
  • The number of female physicians is growing rapidly.
  • After more than a decade of significant growth, the proportion of total payments made to physicians through alternative payment plans (APPs) instead of fee for service (FFS) appears to have stabilized.
  • In 2013–2014, 28% of payments to physicians were received through APPs and 71% through FFS, which remained virtually unchanged since 2009.
Irene Jansen

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    Leadership Accountability in Canadian Healthcare: Creating the momentum to improve quality 29/08/2011The theme of the 2011 CEO Forum, Leadership Accountability in Canadian Healthcare: Creating the momentum to improve quality, grew from a clear message he
Irene Jansen

US healthcare reform cannot be undone, says former Medicare boss | World news | guardia... - 1 views

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  • Dr Don Berwick, who resigned the job in December when it became clear Congress would not confirm his recess appointment made by President Obama, said
  • "There is so much tectonic motion now – the plates are shifting – and I don't think they can go back.
  • Berwick, who has now joined the think tank Center for American Progress, said he thought the supreme court might allow the law to stand.
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  • The justices in Washington are expected to deliver their ruling in the next 10 days, a decision that could have a serious impact on Obama's re-election hopes as well as the healthcare of the millions of Americans who currently have inadequate coverage or none at all.
  • moves that are under way everywhere to improve the co-ordination and quality of care as the Act requires, he says. Doctors and hospitals are exploring different relationships. Accountable care organisations (ACOs) are springing up to provide the entire network of care many people need – specialist, primary care doctor and home health care as well, instead of just the separate parts
  • Medicare is so big and so important that you really can't get the whole system to move without Medicare's involvement, but Medicare can lead or it can follow.
  • "Medicaid is more vulnerable than Medicare because it serves a less vocal population and it's a state/federal partnership
  • Berwick's downfall was considered to be his praise for Britain's universal national health service
  • He warns that increasing the role of the private sector in the NHS, as the British government is now doing, is risky. "I would be cautious – very cautious," he said. "When you invite entrepreneurial private sector investors into the delivery of care, under most payment systems, they will be very interested in volume. They will be very interested in doing more things to people and you may find that you lose control of that level of discipline to the disadvantage of patients. When more things are done, more unnecessary things get done and more hazard enters the system – not just cost.
  • "You want hospitals that seek to be empty, doctors that seek to be idle, machines that are few. In healthcare you want to find the way to help that is the least invasive of the person's life and body. A volume-based system does not have that incentive structure."
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